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Book Title: Breaking Dawn
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Genre: urban fantasy
Rating: 2/5

Summary (from book cover): "Don't be afraid," I murmured. "We belong together."

I was abruptly overwhelmed by the truth of my own words. This moment was so perfect, so right, there was no way to doubt it. His arms wrapped around me, holding me against him... It felt like every nerve ending in my body was a line of wire.

"Forever," he agreed.

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Book Title: Eclipse
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Genre: urban fantasy
Rating: 2/5

Summary (from book cover): In the dead silence, all the details suddenly fell into place for me with a burst of intuition. Something Edward didn't want me to know. Something that Jacob wouldn't have kept from me. Something that had the Cullens and the wolves both in the woods, moving in hazardous proximity to each other...

Something I'd been waiting for anyway.

Something that I know would happen again, as much as I might wish it never would.

It was never going to end, was it?

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Book Title: New Moon
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Genre: urban fantasy
Rating: 3/5

Summary (from Amazon.co.uk):

I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. 'Shoot,' I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. 'No!' Edward roared... Dazed and disorientated, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm - and into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.

For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is more dangerous than Bella ever could have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of an evil vampire but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realise their troubles may just be beginning...

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Book Title: Twilight
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Genre: urban fantasy
Rating: 3/5

Summary (from Amazon.co.uk): When seventeen-year-old Isabella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town itself. In spite of her awkward manner and low expectations, she finds that her new classmates are drawn to this pale, dark-haired new girl in town. But not, it seems, the Cullen family. These five adopted brothers and sisters obviously prefer their own company and will make no exception for Bella. Bella is convinced that Edward Cullen in particular hates her, but she feels a strange attraction to him, although his hostility makes her feel almost physically ill. He seems determined to push her away - until, that is, he saves her life from an out of control car. Bella will soon discover that there is a very good reason for Edward's coldness. He, and his family, are vampires - and he knows how dangerous it is for others to get too close.

My thoughts: Honestly, I didn't enjoyed it (nor hated it) as much as some other people but I can see why they like it, namely girls. However, I wasn't seduced by the vampire. He seemed a bit like a stalker and I don't like stalkers. But focusing on the book...

Bella moves to Forks, after her mother remarried a baseball player, making her travel very often not to be away from her new husband. Bella, with 17 years old can't do the same, and decides to go and live with her dad. Hence she meets Edward Cullen, who reacts in a very strange way as he knows her, but Bella doesn't give up until she finds his and his family's secret – they're vampires. But there are more dangers, as it seems Bella is a very mouth-watering dish.

The characters are pretty basic, practically one-dimensional. Bella is a girl who, clearly, doesn't have her mind on the right place (ok, she's in love and that might excuse some of her problem, but still...), she's clumsy, thinks mostly of others well-being and (enjoys) seems to be always in danger. Edward is beautiful, gorgeous, stunning, and perfect and likes to date his food. Ah, it seems he's intelligent (after all he concluded high school many times before) but that doesn't make him think better and gets too close to Bella, whom he saves constantly though he, himself, says he's the biggest danger to her. The secondary characters are, equally, superficial and it was hard to care about anyone, namely with the vampires who are capable of everything and are so perfect in all they do. Actually, I thought the humans were more interesting.

The story has little action, as it revolves mostly around the relationship between the two main characters. I liked the part in which Bella was trying to figure out Edward's nature, while from the moment they got together the book went downhill, turning out to be very dull and to much sweet for my taste. I rolled my eyes countless times (which is never a good sign) and really thought of abandoning its reading. However, the dialogue between the couple is nice to follow, especially to understand Meyer's changes to the vampire myth, though I still think that the sparkling part is a bit too much. But since they're the better predators, the deathliest one, they had to have something that would give them away while hunting in broad daylight, right? At least, that was how I came to terms with that.

Still, it's an easy book to read, it seems a diary as it is told as a first-person narrative, through the eyes of Bella. It's a nice book if you're looking for a light reading at the end of a stressful day. However, if I wasn't lent the entire series, I think I would never read the remaining books as this one gets away with being a stand-alone. It leaves some questions to be answered but the end is still satisfying.